DEFICIENCIES IN THE CURRENT PRE-UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AND FIELDS OF EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FUTURE TEACHERS | Author : Ecaterina Sarah FRASINEANU | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The article analyzes a number of tendencies of current education and summarizes ideas that are in the area of concern of the students who are preparing to become teachers. The quality of the education system is related to the value of the
students learning outcomes, but it is also conditioned by the convergence of the educational initiatives. From the perspective of the students who have experience in psycho-pedagogical studies and who fathom applied fields, a number of existing or
potential problems are validated. Thus, the students indicated as the main deficiencies, that require initiatives: absenteeism, poor results in learning in the fields of science, technology, insufficient digital skills and curricular overload. There is a consonance between the titles or lists of proposals of future teachers and the directions of educational policy, and the practical accomplishment of the actual projects requires, first of all, analyzes and group debates, from those who are
preparing to initiate educational projects. In addition to the main problems, considered deficient, we were interested in the propositions of concrete solutions, and although students had some contagions with the titles of certain projects already
implemented in Romania, they used formulations that highlighted the qualities of a desirable education: participatory; restructured/ recovered; electronic; community oriented; extracurricular; curricularly developed. The effects of the pandemic situation between 2020-2022, in education, have led the future teachers to become aware of the role the projects that integrate interdisciplinarily, information and communication technologies have. |
| DIGITAL TRAINING: TOWARDS A MULTIMODAL AND DIGITAL APPROACH TO CO-CONSTRUCTING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS | Author : Euphrosyne EFTHIMIADOU | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :In the digital age, the socio-professional world is undergoing a transition period to move towards the development of digital skills of citizens, in order to reset education and training throughout life while respecting the personal rhythm of each participant. Under this aspect, it will be of prime interest to boost perceptions of cognitive and affective nature to release the creative potential of people in training. the implementation
of innovative teaching methods focused on the good supervision and reciprocal online collaboration of trainees will allow them to invest effectively in the education and training process. Therefore, trainees will demonstrate digital abilities and transversal skills through the adoption of pedagogical strategies without neglecting the mastery of sophisticated digital tools, in order to react to the impasses of socio-professional life and
to face the new challenges of the society of the future. |
| UNIVERSITY TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL NEEDS FOR ALGERIAN JURISTS | Author : Charef Eddine KAOUADJI | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :This article is part of the field of French for specific objectives (FOS) more particularly, in French as a professional language (FLP). We target a specific audience, in this case jurists working in several professional sectors: banks, electricity and hydrocarbons. We want through this expertise, to characterize the university training received by these jurists, which is essentially based on classical Arabic, in order to arrive at a definition of their language needs in the job market. First, we will define their exit profile by focusing on expertise in legal French programs. Then, we will analyze their entry profile into the job market by using semistructured interviews with jurists, in a second step. |
| ANALYSIS OF TRAINING PROGRAMS OF SCHOOL TEACHERS IN ROMANIA IN 2021 | Author : Gabriela MOTOI, Alexandrina Mihaela POPESCU | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The pandemic has brought educational systems in front of certain changes in the educational paradigm and at the same time in front of enormous challenges. Online education has been a reality for many months, and teachers have worked hard to adapt to the situation created by the crisis facing schools. It was a period that very often brought to the surface the creativity of teachers and the great availability to adapt to the situation of online education. Depending on the environment of residence, the infrastructure of the schools, the digital competencies they possessed, the teachers found solutions so as not to further increase the inequalities between the students. We proposed making a synthetic analysis of the training programs of school teachers in Romania, having 2021 as reference year, a pandemic year. This analysis was carried out at the level of development regions, at the level of the structure of the providers of continuous training programs and of the topics of continuous training. |
| FAMILY FACTORS AND THE “FUTURE” OF UNSCHOOLED TEENAGERS: OVERVIEW AND DETERMINANTS IN THE COMMUNE OF TCHAOUROU (BÉNIN) | Author : Lucien Médard DAHOUE, Judicaël ALLADATIN | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The situation of unschooled teenagers in the labor market seems particularly worrisome. This study is related to concerns about the social integration of adolescents and aims to identify the determinants of the future of out-of-school adolescents in the commune of Tchaourou. It specifically addresses, through a nested multinomial logit regression, two aspects of the “future” of adolescents outof-school: economic activity and future plans.
The results show that the size of the household of residence and the financial support granted by parents/guardians are the key factors in the exercise of an income-generating activity by out-of-school adolescents. The future of adolescents out-of-school are significantly influenced by the relationship with the head of the household, the standard of living of the household and the type of household. |
| EDUCATIONAL RESILIENCE AND THE RISK OF MENTAL DISORDERS | Author : Oprea-Valentin BUSU, Elena-Cristina ANDREI | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Educational resilience is a complex subject, insufficiently addressed. The concept of educational resilience refers to the student s ability to overcome stressful events in an optimal way. We often observe how students with very good academic
results end up developing depressive or anxious states as a result of a stressful event or as a result of a situation with a high degree of difficulty. Our study aims to highlight the following aspects: the frequency of difficult situations faced by first year students from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova and the University of Craiova, the degree of resilience approached in terms of time needed to overcome a stressful event, students ability to recover, the level of stress perceived by students during the exam session, the possibility of the idea of interrupting studies, the degree of motivation for the chosen field of study, the availability of students to
participate to a course of emotion management in stressful periods. The study was conducted using a questionnaire covering 15 questions with a simple complement on a sample of 89 students. We believe that the results obtained from this study will contribute significantly to the awareness of the importance of the phenomenon of educational resilience. The causes that often lead to academic failure or dropping out of school are directly proportional to the student s degree of resilience. |
| METHODS OF INTERVENTION WITH CHILDREN WITH AUTISM: WHAT SKILLS FOR INTERVENTION PROFESSIONALS? | Author : Adolf MOTE, Arlette Sidonie EZO’O, Vandelin MGBWA | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :This contribution repositioned the debate on the modalities of intervention of children with autism in specialized centers. The rapid changes within the issue of autism from diagnosis to the care of children with autism are dividing practitioners and experts, and even families. If for some (Hayek, 2015), autism is a pathology and from this point of view, the autistic child is a non-compliant, abnormal, or even unprofitable subject for others, on the other hand it is a question of cognitive flexibility or imaginative, since autism is a way of being (Grollier, 2014). The research is based on a projective test: Corman s family drawing, which allows the subject to be read about the development of executive functions through the analysis
of graphic, formal and content aspects. The research results highlight the professional skills of educators albeit shy in implementing the principles of mental flexibility in children. The drawing represents an imaginary family with an absence
of the constituent elements, the inadequate shapes without real animation, the absence of colors (just the pencil). In short, the child did well to represent his family in the right way, the characters do indeed have the human form. |
| EDUCATIONAL RESILIENCE AND THE RISK OF MENTAL DISORDERS | Author : Oprea-Valentin BUSU, Elena-Cristina ANDREI | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Educational resilience is a complex subject, insufficiently addressed. The concept of educational resilience refers to the student s ability to overcome stressful events in an optimal way. We often observe how students with very good academic
results end up developing depressive or anxious states as a result of a stressful event or as a result of a situation with a high degree of difficulty. Our study aims to highlight the following aspects: the frequency of difficult situations faced by first year students from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova and the University of Craiova, the degree of resilience approached in terms of time needed to overcome a stressful event, students ability to recover, the level of stress perceived by students during the exam session, the possibility of the idea of interrupting studies, the degree of motivation for the chosen field of study, the availability of students to
participate to a course of emotion management in stressful periods. The study was conducted using a questionnaire covering 15 questions with a simple complement on a sample of 89 students. We believe that the results obtained from this study will contribute significantly to the awareness of the importance of the phenomenon of educational resilience. The causes that often lead to academic failure or dropping out of school are directly proportional to the student s degree of resilience. |
| THE FASCINATING PROFESSOR. A POINT OF VIEW | Author : Razvan-Alexandru CALIN | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :One of the main objectives of the teaching is to reach those psycho-emotional springs of those who participate in the teaching act able to turn the participants into captives of the discourse, ideas, and relationship that is built in the created teaching context. Fascination is the way, and the professor is in the hypothesis to realize this act. This article presents the results of a study on the qualities that a professor should possess to be fascinating, as it was identified and described following the exploratory approach focused on questionnaire-based research applied to a number of 130 students in the first year from different faculties of the University of Craiova. The final results, obtained through the expert consultation technique, corroborated with the Critical Incident Technique and the Assessment Scale with Behavioral Anchors, were organized in the form of a hierarchical list of qualities of the fascinating professor, a list that allowed to draw current conclusions regarding directions likely to develop professor teaching approaches. |
| FORMATIVE-CONSTRUCTIVIST VALENCES OF THE TEACHING PORTFOLIO | Author : Vali ILIE | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The portfolio represents a complex assessment tool that includes the relevant outcomes of the students during a learning program. Starting from its role in the academic activity of the students, we aimed in this study to identify the specific aspects of this longitudinal method of assessment and to record, in a constatative research, the way the students relate to the elaboration of the portfolio for the graduation of the psycho-pedagogical module specific to level I, License. The interpretation of their answers to the items of the questionnaire about the relevance and importance of the graduation portfolio is, in our opinion, a starting point in improving the subsequent instructive-educational approaches. |
| CONTINUOUS TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN ROMANIAN AND EUROPEAN CONTEXT | Author : Florentina MOGONEA | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Continuing education, training is an important component of every social subsystem, including the education one. The study aims to address the issue of continuing education of teachers, both in the context of the Romanian education and teaching system, and the European one, conducting an analysis of the legislative framework, but also of the experiences of recent years in this field. We have referred to documents, legislative acts, which regulate the system of continuous training (eg: National Education Law, for the Romanian education system) or to various reports (OECD, Eurydice), which present different statistical situations regarding the continuous training of teachers in European countries, on training priorities. Our investigative approach focused on a category of continuing education activities, namely training programs, which support the career development of teachers. The target group consisted of teachers who teach in preschool education, participants in such a continuing education program, before taking an exam (grade II teacher), to ensure their career development. We analyzed the importance/ relevance of using a summative assessment tool (portfolio), respectively of its components in establishing the level of professional skills, developed within the Program. The research methods we used were the survey
based on the questionnaire and the analysis of the products of the activity (the portfolios). The results obtained confirmed the validity of the evaluation tool used. |
| DEVELOPING CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM. REALITIES, CHALLENGES AND DIDACTIC SUGGESTIONS | Author : Souhila BENZERROUG | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The present research paper explores the concept of cultural competence and its place in the second-generation textbooks of the Algerian Middle School Education. The study is designed to gain insight into the development and the definition of this competence from the point of view of both linguists and
didacticians. It then tries to examine its place in the various official documents of the Middle School Education (programs, accompanying documents and 3AM textbooks). The researcher will interview middle school teachers of French regarding their classroom practices and perceptions, in addition to the importance of introducing the cultural competence to develop the skills of writing and speaking in the French language classroom. |
| THE EFFICIENCY OF TEACHING ACTIVITY THROUGH REFLECTIVE PRACTICE | Author : Emil LAZAR | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Reflective practice is a valuable resource, still underexploited, which can bring important benefits to the teacher and, implicitly, to the pupils, ensuring school success and, subsequently, professional and social. Reflective action involves the desire to engage in self-assessment and self development, which must become constants of the professional practice of the
teacher. It also requires flexibility from teachers, rigorous analysis and awareness of the impact and effectiveness of their own work in relation to the specifics and beneficiaries of its work, students. This study is about teachers’ awareness of the fact that the continuous improvement of the quality of the educational process involves, first of all, reflection on it. Reflective practice should become an intrinsic component of educational practices, a situation that requires the instrumentality of teachers with a set of knowledge and skills necessary for this endeavour, but also the development of a set
of tools to assess the impact of the activity of didactic staff on the learning carried out by students, as an expression of its effectiveness. This research investigates respondents’ opinions on the importance of knowing their own impact of teaching on school progress and student learning and aims to identify tools for measuring/ assessing the impact of teachers’ activity on
pupils and developing transversal skills on improving professional performance, self-control and reflective analysis of their own activity. |
| SCHOOL ADAPTATION DIFFICULTIES IN THE PREPARATORY GRADE | Author : Florentin Remus MOGONEA | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Through the present study we intend to demonstrate that the main function of the primary cycle is the instrumental one which is meant to form intellectual abilities in students, to teach them how to learn. The new curriculum requires a
reconsideration of the value dimension of the informative-formative couple and, implicitly, a reconsideration of the whole process of designing teaching activities. The preparatory grade, integrated in compulsory education, established by the National Education Law no. 1/2011, proposes both a systematic educational approach, meant to train and test the school skills of preschoolers, and an educational approach that streamlines school placement, access and successful participation in education. From the perspective of the Education Law, the
preparatory grade has the role of preparing a quality school debut, through institutionalized early education and by creating the educational premises for a school integration with low rates of early school leaving and with increased chances of future integration on the labor market of the current generations of preschoolers. The research we conducted, on a sample of teachers (93 subjects), school managers (43), parents (215 subjects) aimed at outlining a diagnosis of the role of the preparatory grade in getting ready for the school activity, based on learning, of the young student. The research methods we used analysed the curricular documents, the products of the students activity, the survey based on the questionnaire, the corresponding tool being presented in the Annex. The research
results validated the pursued hypotheses. We have identified both the advantages and disadvantages, as well as the proposals for streamlining the situation. |
| THE INTRAPERSONAL FIELD OF SOCIO-EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE. FROM SELF-KNOWLEDGE TO EMOTION MANAGEMENT | Author : Mihaela Aurelia ?TEFAN | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Research shows that emotional intelligence provides a variety of useful acquisitions during one s life. Higher EQ levels are associated with an increased likelihood of inner balance and positive interactions with others. The study aims to address the intrapersonal dimension of emotional intelligence, namely the relationship with ourselves, with an emphasis on self knowledge, self-awareness of emotions, emotions representing the link between thought, feeling and action. The proposed experimental program aimed at carrying out counseling
activities focused on self-knowledge, on developing a clear and correct self-image. The research data showed that counseling activities cause positive changes in attitudes: self-confidence, optimism, enthusiasm. |
| PERCEIVED INFLUENCE OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES ON THE EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE OF TEACHERS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN DELTA STATE, NIGERIA | Author : Republic O. IGBODO, Helen S. NWALADO | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The study examined the perceived influence of staff development programmes on the effective performance of teachers in Colleges of Education in Delta State, Nigeria. The population for the study was 91 subjects, made up of 69 Heads of Departments and 22 Deans from three Colleges of Education in Delta State. Due to the manageable size of the population, the entire 91 respondents were used. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire validated by three
Heads of Department from Federal College of Education (Technical) Asaba. Data were collected by the researcher and two trained research assistants. Data collected were analyzed with mean and t-test statistics. The results of the study identified 12 influences of in-service training on effective performance of teachers, 14 influences of teachers’ professional development on their performance, 11 hindrances to
effective implementation of staff development and 10 measures to enhance staff development programmes for effective performance. The results on the hypotheses showed that there was no significant differences in the mean ratings of HODs and
Deans on the influence of in-service training, professional development of teachers and measures for measures to enhance staff development programmes. On the other
hand, there was significant difference in the mean ratings of HODs and Deans on the hindrances to effective implementation of staff development programmes in Colleges of Education in Delta State. The study recommended that, more proactive
policies by the government to strengthen teacher training and development programmes in Nigerian schools for effective performance and service delivery of the teachers. |
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